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The Eastern
Published By Students of Eastern State Normal School
Vol. 24.
MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA, MARCH, 1944.
No. 6.
Music Contest
To Be Apr. 27-28
Southeastern S. Dakota
Schools to Participate in Event
By Bernice Anderson
Representative music groups
from a number of schools in the
district surrounding Madison are
expected to meet at Eastern on
April 27 and 28 for the district
music contest.
The contest is an annual event
which originated at Eastern and
is now held in all sections of the
state. It has been held each
year since it was begun, about
1922, until last year, when it was
not held, because of the war.
The exact number of schools
entering is not known at present
because the registration has not
been completed. The area included extends over most of southeastern South Dakota. A few towns
from the north are also represented.
The contest is expected to be
held in the buildings of Eastern
and in the Madison Armory-Auditorium.
Two New Students
Start Spring Term
An enrollment decrease of five
took place in the spring quarter
registration when two new students entered Eastern and seven
members dropped.
Entering as freshmen were Gale
Wheeler and June Faber, both of
Alcester. Both girls are enrolled
in the education course.
Students who left last quarter
are: Selma Falk who is now
teaching at Canistota; Arleen
Schrag who is working in the
Lake County Agent's office; Kenneth Siegfried and Gerald Nelson,
both of whom went into the army;
Grace Anderson, who is employed
in the office of the Haynie Hatchery in Dell Rapids; Bettie Lohan
of Arlington; and Leona Dietrich
of Bushnell.
L.S.A. Discontinues
Meetings Until April 79
The L.S.A. decided February 26
to discontinue the regular meetings
at East Hall and to attend those
held at the Trinity Lutheran
Church. It is understood that the
students will attend these meetings regularly until L.S.A. is resumed at East Hall on April 19.
Traditional Fool's Day' Is Upon Us;
Watch Everything; Expect the Worst
By Mary Lou Baughman
Saturday will be April Fool's
Day. Watch out!
The first day of April, known
as April Fool's Day, or All Fool's
Day, is traditionally devoted to
practical joking. It becomes the
business of a large number of
people, especially of the younger
set, to practice innocent pranks
upon their unsuspicious neighbors
by making April Fools of them.
The great object is to catch
some person off his guard, to pass
off upon him, as a simple fact,
something barely possible, and
which has no truth in it; to impose upon him so as to trick him
to go into positions of absurdity,
in the eye of a laughing circle of
bystanders.
April-Fooling Starts Early
For successful April-fooling it
is necessary to have a considerable degree of coolness and face.
A large part of the business is
carried on about breakfast-time
before people are warned of the
danger.
An old Scotch April Fool prank
is called "Hunting the Gowk" (a
cuckoo). Wag number one sends
simple Andrew Thomson several
miles with a letter (supposedly
to borrow something) to wag
number two. In reality the note
reads:
This is the first day of
April,
Hunt the gowk another
mile.
Wag number two, catching the
idea, tells Andrew that he is sorry,
but he cannot supply the demands in the note, and he sends
Andrew on a couple miles farther
to wag number three, who perhaps takes pity on poor Andrew,
and tells him of the joke being
played upon him. Andrew returns
home a much wiser man.
Beware of Gifts
In pre-war days chocolate-coated soap, garlic, or onion prepared
to look like candy, was offered to
innocent people; if they accepted
the "sweets," they had a bad
taste in their mouths the rest of
the day, much to the practical
joker's amusement. "Lost" purses
(Page three, please)
Vacation from Noon
Apr. 5 - Noon, Apr. 12
Easter vacation will begin at
Eastern at noon on April 5 and
end at 1 o'clock on April 12.
Students and staff members
will thus have a week for rest
and recreation before beginning
the last period of the year's
work.
Students will go to their
homes for the period, but, because of the shortage of gasoline, most of the staff will remain in Madison.
Choric Drama to Be
Presented April 14
A choric drama entitled "The
Voice of America," by Elizabeth
Welch, will be presented in East
Wing Auditorium on April 14, under the direction of C. S. Lines.
This drama presents the development of America through a
series of tableaux, beginning with
Columbus and ending with the
present day. The cast consists of
a verse choir made up of about
thirty of the students on the
campus, which acts as the narrator, supplemented by a seer or
solo speaker.
The pupils of Washington, Campus Training School, Garfield, and
St. Thomas have been asked to
present several of the dances called for in the tableaux. These
dances consist of a minuet, a
square dance, and a modern dance.
March 13 Is Unlucky
Day for Miss Akey
March 13 proved to be an unlucky day for Miss Ethel Akey,
sixth grade teacher at Washington School. On the way home
Miss Akey slipped on the icy
streets and fell, breaking both
bones in her wrist. At the present
time the bones are mending in a
satisfactory condition.
TEACHES FOR SISTER
Rosella Haak was absent from
school for four days during the
week of March 12. Miss Haak
taught school for her sister, who
was ill. Miss Haak is back in
school and reports that her sister is recovering satisfactorily.
Walton, Caldwell Represent E.S.N.S.
At I.R.C. Conference in Nebraska
Round Table Discussion
of World Peace Held
at Midland
By Carol Caldwell
Jean Walton and Carol Caldwell, accompanied by C. S. Lines,
speech instructor, represented
Eastern at the Mississippi Valley
Conference of International Relations Clubs held March 17 and 18
at Midland College, Fremont, Nebraska. More than 200 students were
present from thirty-six colleges
and universities in six mid-western
states. Many were of foreign
descent. Japanese-Americans, Filipinos, Germans, Hawaiians, Negroes, Indians, South Americans,
and an Austrian, as well as several boys from the navy and one
from the army, joined in the panel
discussions.
The theme of the conference,
which was sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, was "Problems of Global
Peace." The conference was divided into three sections—"Consequences of Global War," "First
Steps to Peace," and "Political
Problems of Global Peace"—each
of which was subdivided into three
separate round tables.
Special Speaker on Peace
Climaxing the convention was
a talk on "Present Prospects for
World Organization," by Dr. Pitman B. Potter of Oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio. Dr. Potter was
engaged in war work at Washington during World War I, has
taught at Harvard, Yale, Chicago,
and other universities, and was a
member of the staff of the Grad-
(Page four, please)
May 25 Set as Date
for Commencement Play
May 25 has been set as the
tentative date for the presentation
of the commencement play. C. S.
Lines, instructor in speech, has
indicated that the mystery play,
"Nine Girls," by Wilfrid Pettitt,
may be used, but he is also considering "Cry Havoc."
The cast for "Nine Girls" will
be made up of nine girls chosen
from the student body. Tryouts
for the parts will be open to any
member of the student body. The
production of these plays will be
a project of the Play Production
Class.

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The Eastern
Published By Students of Eastern State Normal School
Vol. 24.
MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA, MARCH, 1944.
No. 6.
Music Contest
To Be Apr. 27-28
Southeastern S. Dakota
Schools to Participate in Event
By Bernice Anderson
Representative music groups
from a number of schools in the
district surrounding Madison are
expected to meet at Eastern on
April 27 and 28 for the district
music contest.
The contest is an annual event
which originated at Eastern and
is now held in all sections of the
state. It has been held each
year since it was begun, about
1922, until last year, when it was
not held, because of the war.
The exact number of schools
entering is not known at present
because the registration has not
been completed. The area included extends over most of southeastern South Dakota. A few towns
from the north are also represented.
The contest is expected to be
held in the buildings of Eastern
and in the Madison Armory-Auditorium.
Two New Students
Start Spring Term
An enrollment decrease of five
took place in the spring quarter
registration when two new students entered Eastern and seven
members dropped.
Entering as freshmen were Gale
Wheeler and June Faber, both of
Alcester. Both girls are enrolled
in the education course.
Students who left last quarter
are: Selma Falk who is now
teaching at Canistota; Arleen
Schrag who is working in the
Lake County Agent's office; Kenneth Siegfried and Gerald Nelson,
both of whom went into the army;
Grace Anderson, who is employed
in the office of the Haynie Hatchery in Dell Rapids; Bettie Lohan
of Arlington; and Leona Dietrich
of Bushnell.
L.S.A. Discontinues
Meetings Until April 79
The L.S.A. decided February 26
to discontinue the regular meetings
at East Hall and to attend those
held at the Trinity Lutheran
Church. It is understood that the
students will attend these meetings regularly until L.S.A. is resumed at East Hall on April 19.
Traditional Fool's Day' Is Upon Us;
Watch Everything; Expect the Worst
By Mary Lou Baughman
Saturday will be April Fool's
Day. Watch out!
The first day of April, known
as April Fool's Day, or All Fool's
Day, is traditionally devoted to
practical joking. It becomes the
business of a large number of
people, especially of the younger
set, to practice innocent pranks
upon their unsuspicious neighbors
by making April Fools of them.
The great object is to catch
some person off his guard, to pass
off upon him, as a simple fact,
something barely possible, and
which has no truth in it; to impose upon him so as to trick him
to go into positions of absurdity,
in the eye of a laughing circle of
bystanders.
April-Fooling Starts Early
For successful April-fooling it
is necessary to have a considerable degree of coolness and face.
A large part of the business is
carried on about breakfast-time
before people are warned of the
danger.
An old Scotch April Fool prank
is called "Hunting the Gowk" (a
cuckoo). Wag number one sends
simple Andrew Thomson several
miles with a letter (supposedly
to borrow something) to wag
number two. In reality the note
reads:
This is the first day of
April,
Hunt the gowk another
mile.
Wag number two, catching the
idea, tells Andrew that he is sorry,
but he cannot supply the demands in the note, and he sends
Andrew on a couple miles farther
to wag number three, who perhaps takes pity on poor Andrew,
and tells him of the joke being
played upon him. Andrew returns
home a much wiser man.
Beware of Gifts
In pre-war days chocolate-coated soap, garlic, or onion prepared
to look like candy, was offered to
innocent people; if they accepted
the "sweets," they had a bad
taste in their mouths the rest of
the day, much to the practical
joker's amusement. "Lost" purses
(Page three, please)
Vacation from Noon
Apr. 5 - Noon, Apr. 12
Easter vacation will begin at
Eastern at noon on April 5 and
end at 1 o'clock on April 12.
Students and staff members
will thus have a week for rest
and recreation before beginning
the last period of the year's
work.
Students will go to their
homes for the period, but, because of the shortage of gasoline, most of the staff will remain in Madison.
Choric Drama to Be
Presented April 14
A choric drama entitled "The
Voice of America," by Elizabeth
Welch, will be presented in East
Wing Auditorium on April 14, under the direction of C. S. Lines.
This drama presents the development of America through a
series of tableaux, beginning with
Columbus and ending with the
present day. The cast consists of
a verse choir made up of about
thirty of the students on the
campus, which acts as the narrator, supplemented by a seer or
solo speaker.
The pupils of Washington, Campus Training School, Garfield, and
St. Thomas have been asked to
present several of the dances called for in the tableaux. These
dances consist of a minuet, a
square dance, and a modern dance.
March 13 Is Unlucky
Day for Miss Akey
March 13 proved to be an unlucky day for Miss Ethel Akey,
sixth grade teacher at Washington School. On the way home
Miss Akey slipped on the icy
streets and fell, breaking both
bones in her wrist. At the present
time the bones are mending in a
satisfactory condition.
TEACHES FOR SISTER
Rosella Haak was absent from
school for four days during the
week of March 12. Miss Haak
taught school for her sister, who
was ill. Miss Haak is back in
school and reports that her sister is recovering satisfactorily.
Walton, Caldwell Represent E.S.N.S.
At I.R.C. Conference in Nebraska
Round Table Discussion
of World Peace Held
at Midland
By Carol Caldwell
Jean Walton and Carol Caldwell, accompanied by C. S. Lines,
speech instructor, represented
Eastern at the Mississippi Valley
Conference of International Relations Clubs held March 17 and 18
at Midland College, Fremont, Nebraska. More than 200 students were
present from thirty-six colleges
and universities in six mid-western
states. Many were of foreign
descent. Japanese-Americans, Filipinos, Germans, Hawaiians, Negroes, Indians, South Americans,
and an Austrian, as well as several boys from the navy and one
from the army, joined in the panel
discussions.
The theme of the conference,
which was sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, was "Problems of Global
Peace." The conference was divided into three sections—"Consequences of Global War," "First
Steps to Peace," and "Political
Problems of Global Peace"—each
of which was subdivided into three
separate round tables.
Special Speaker on Peace
Climaxing the convention was
a talk on "Present Prospects for
World Organization," by Dr. Pitman B. Potter of Oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio. Dr. Potter was
engaged in war work at Washington during World War I, has
taught at Harvard, Yale, Chicago,
and other universities, and was a
member of the staff of the Grad-
(Page four, please)
May 25 Set as Date
for Commencement Play
May 25 has been set as the
tentative date for the presentation
of the commencement play. C. S.
Lines, instructor in speech, has
indicated that the mystery play,
"Nine Girls," by Wilfrid Pettitt,
may be used, but he is also considering "Cry Havoc."
The cast for "Nine Girls" will
be made up of nine girls chosen
from the student body. Tryouts
for the parts will be open to any
member of the student body. The
production of these plays will be
a project of the Play Production
Class.